Fresh Cartridge reporter. Covers launches, remasters and the modern retro scene as it happens. Owns more handhelds than handbags, has opinions about all of them, and filed this bio from a Game Boy she modded herself.
Every studio that remakes a beloved classic eventually faces the same awkward morning after. The applause fades, the publisher banks its share, and one…
Every reconstruction starts with an inventory of what survived. For Final Fantasy Tactics — The Ivalice Chronicles, that inventory was stranger than most: no…
Forty-five minutes is not long to judge a game that can swallow a hundred hours, but at Gamescom 2025 it turned out to be long enough to settle the only…
Here is a sentence no publisher ever wants to say out loud about one of its most beloved games: we no longer have the code. Yet that is exactly what Square Enix had to work around to bring back Final Fantasy Tactics .
Anniversary tributes are usually easy to predict. A beloved game turns twenty-five, the people who made it share a fond memory, everyone agrees it holds up…
Some weeks, the past and the present arrive on the newsstand together. In the last days of August 2025, Retro Gamer put Joe Musashi on its cover, devoting a…
Before Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater lets you choose a difficulty level, pick a control style or watch a single parachute open over the Soviet jungle…
Every long-running MMO eventually hands its players a sword, a spaceship or a savings-destroying mount. What World of Warcraft never handed anyone, across…
Every remake argues with its own past, but few argue as politely as this one. When Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater launched on 28 August 2025 for…
Every few years, somebody buys the Atari name and promises to restore it. The promises usually end in a licensed T-shirt, a plug-and-play box in a discount…